The El Paso Police Department will present the "El Paso Police Department 2014 Racial Profile Analysis" by the University of North Texas. The report concludes that there appears to be no evidence that El Paso police engage in racial profiling. "The analysis of statistical information from (the) El Paso Police Department reveals that there are no methodologically conclusive indications of systematic racial profiling by the department," according to the report. The analysts used 2010 Census data for the racial/ethnic populations for El Paso and the racial/ethnic breakdowns for traffic stops in 2014. These are the population percentages by race or ethnicity and the respective percentage of traffic stops for each group: Whites 14.20% (23.36%); Asian 1.20% (0.36%); Hispanic 80.70% (72.32%); and African Americans 3.40% (3.73%). "The chart shows a modest degree of disparity in the rates at which white drivers are stopped, however, easy determinations regarding whether or not El Paso officers have racially profiled a given motorist are impossible given the nature of the data that has been collected and presented for this report," according to the authors. Perhaps the presentation at the Feb. 17 City Council meeting will explain this up a bit better. The statistics indicate that whites are stopped at rates higher than the percentage of whites in the city's population, African Americans are stopped at rates that are higher than the percentage of Hispanics in the city's population, and Hispanics and Asians are stopped at rates that are lower than the percentages of their populations. When it comes to police searches, the report finds that whites account for 15.27 % of searches, African Americans 6.57 % (compared to their 3.40% population) and Hispanics for 78.04% of searches. Within each group, the report shows, 7.70% of 19,798 whites who were stopped were searched; 20.70% of 3,165 African Americans who were stopped were searched; and 12.70% of 61,302 Hispanics who were stopped were searched. The analysis period ran from Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 31, 2014.